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NEW YORK (CNN) – A teenage girl says she helped rescue a young boy locked in a hot car while his mother was working.

“He said thank you and he waved to me, sorry, it makes me cry, it’s really sad,” said Mack.

Close to 80 degrees that afternoon, it was hot but parked out in the sun, temperatures inside this car could have reached between 120 and 130 degrees. It where a little boy was left alone, without water for more than two hours.

“No drinks or food. He could have ended up dying,” said Mack.

Mack says she almost didn’t see him. The four-year-old’s head barely reached the top of the steering wheel.

“So I looked over and i rolled down my window and i asked him are you okay and he said no,” said Mack.

The teenager got out and walked over to the car, tucked in the back corner of the lot.

“So then I asked him again are you okay and he said no, I’m not okay,” said Mack.

Mack says the boy was lethargic, soaked in sweat he sat in the driver’s seat, too scared to get out of the car.

“He was a little boy he was hot and sweaty by himself. He was tired, obviously,” said Mack. She took one look at him and called 911. “I said where is your mom and he pointed at TGI Fridays and said she was working.”

A hostess at the restaurant, Thelma Edwards didn’t come outside until police arrived. Through the one cracked window, Mack asked the child if anyone had been out to check on him. “He said no I’ve been by myself and then that’s when he said I’ve been in here since about 4. That’s when I looked at my phone and I was like, it’s 6:30. He’s been in here for 2 and half hours by himself.”

According to police, Edwards said she had no one to watch the boy. She was arrested and child protective services took custody of the little boy.

“It makes me happy to know that he is actually protected now and that his mother can’t harm him and that he is safe and in good hands,” said Mack.